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diff --git a/doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn b/doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e0e8acb34 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Currently, new comments are named with an incrementing ID (comment_N). So +if a wiki has multiple disconnected servers, and comments are made to the +same page on both, merging is guaranteed to result in conflicts. + +I propose avoiding such merge problems by naming a comment with a sha1sum +of its (full) content. Keep the incrementing ID too, so there is an +-ordering. And so duplicate comments are allowed..) +So, "comment_N_SHA1". + +Note: The comment body will need to use meta title in the case where no +title is specified, to retain the current behavior of the default title +being "comment N". + +What do you think [[smcv]]? --[[Joey]] |